Essentiality conferred |
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| Authors: | Ásta Sveinsdóttir |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94312, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this article I introduce a certain kind of anti-realist account of what makes a property essential to an object and defend it against likely objections. This account, which I call a ‘conferralist’ account, shares some of the attractive features of other anti-realist accounts, such as conventionalism and expressivism, but I believe, not their respective drawbacks. |
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| Keywords: | Essentialism Conferralism Realism Properties Conventionalism |
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